Mobile operators and mobile service providers like SMS aggregators and ticket providers have until now been the main actors in the provisioning of SMS tickets for public transportation services. The consumers have been charged for SMS payments using the mobile phone bill. Due to financial regulation (EU directive) mobile operators are no longer allowed to handle payments and transactions for no...

Today, enterprises are faced with increased global competition in an environment where customers are demanding faster delivery, better service and also want to gain significant and immediate business value by increasing productivity and reducing operational cost. Spurred by unprecedented customer demand, each Industry cluster has developed its own source of comparative advantage. Even within a ...

in this study, an attempt has been made to expound the iranian law of intellectual property in relation to biotechnology. the most important themes studied are patents, industrial designs and trade marks. the latest relevant piece of legislation concerning the subject matters was passed in march 2008. however, the history of laws and regulations in this field goes back to early twentieth centur...

The modern world is shrinking due to the development of science and its technology. Over the years, wireless telecommunication market has long been recognized as one of the most dynamic and fastest growing segments of the global telecommunication industry. But requirement of human being augment day by day. However further modernization will be on convergence of the existing technology in to a s...

Th is paper presents a low cost and flexib le home control and monitoring system using an embedded micro -web server, with IP connectivity for accessing and controlling devices and appliances remotely using Android based Smart phone app. The proposed system does not require a dedicated server PC with respect to similar systems and offers a novel communicat ion protocol to monitor and control th...

This paper describes an approach for combining Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based voice communication with Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) based presence enhancements. The actual role of SIP and XMPP in the Internet Protocol (IP) based communication was analyzed, especially from the telecommunication carrier (Telco) point of view. The proposed infrastructure extends a typ...

The cell phone is one of the potential Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in agricultural development especially in developing countries like Bangladesh. Thus, this paper deals with the farmers’ communication with the agricultural extension agents using mobile phone. The study was conducted in Mymensingh District in Bangladesh. Data were collected from a sample of 110 farmers while b...

Voice over IP (VoIP) is in wide use today, replacing phone lines in many scenarios. However, often, security isn’t considered well enough, even though many security attacks are already known. More research on VoIP security is needed to enhance the level of security of VoIP systems and to show the implications of failing to take appropriate security measures. This paper presents a short introduc...

IPTV stands for Internet Protocol Television, and any user with an IP device such as a smart phone can get IPTV service anywhere and anytime as long as the user can access the Internet. Because of this advantage, IPTV is widely believed to be the next killer internet application, and many organizations provide IPTV services. As IPTV becomes popular, formal proofs of IPTV service quality have be...